# data.ny.gov, free, With an app token: Business verification API

> The Department of State keeps a record of every filing for every incorporated business in the state of New York. This dataset contains information on all active corporations as of the last business day of the specified month and year.

data.ny.gov's business verification API on its With an app token plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 7 of the 11 key fields we check: Registered name, Entity number, Entity type, Formation date, Registered agent, Principal address, Officers.
You get as many calls as you like.
Half of the 523 plans we rank by price cost $5.00 per 1,000 companies or less. This plan and 37 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 523 plans.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-ny-gov/free-with-an-app-token
- Get it: https://dev.socrata.com/docs/app-tokens.html
- Request: `GET https://data.ny.gov/resource/n9v6-gdp6.json`
- API key: with the plan, on https://dev.socrata.com/docs/app-tokens.html
- Its API docs: https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.ny.gov/n9v6-gdp6
- Sold by: data.ny.gov (https://data.ny.gov)
- Checked: 2026-10-31

## In the answer

- Completeness: 64%
- Registered name: ✓
- Entity number: ✓
- Entity type: ✓
- Formation date: ✓
- Registered agent: ✓
- Principal address: ✓
- Officers: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The Department of State keeps a record of every filing for every incorporated business in the state of New York. This dataset contains information on all active corporations as of the last business day of the specified month and year.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "The OPEN NY Terms of Service do not contain restrictions requiring members of the public to use attribution, to re-post the license terms with any re-uses of the data, to impose share-alike or technical restrictions, nor require the public to obtain pre-approval before re-use of the data. [...] You are welcome to freely download and use this Content as long as you abide by these Terms of Use [...] As a condition of your use of Content published on OPEN-NY, you warrant to the State that you will not use this website or its Content for purposes that are unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use. You agree to comply with all laws, rules and regulations (for example, federal, state, local and provincial) applicable to your use of OPEN-NY, including but not limited to, intellectual property laws. You may not use the Content here to commit a criminal or civil offense or encourage others to do so. The State may require you, by providing you with a notice in writing with which you shall comply, to cease using or displaying its Content if the State reasonably believes you are violating these Terms of Use, violating other terms posted on OPEN-NY and applicable to the website's Content, or that you are failing to abide by international, federal, state, or local laws, regulations, or ordinances. [...] You will not remove, alter or conceal any copyright, trademark, service mark or other proprietary rights notices incorporated in or accompanying any Content on OPEN-NY, and you will not reproduce, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works based on, perform, display, publish, distribute, transmit, broadcast, sell, license or otherwise exploit OPEN-NY Content in a manner inconsistent with the Terms of Use."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: no limit

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: $where. Optional: $select, $order, $limit, $offset
- Method: GET
- Path: /resource/n9v6-gdp6.json

## About the plan

- Plan: With an app token
- Who can get it: anyone with a Socrata account, which registers an application token in its profile

## The 30 fields the plan's answer can hold

entity ID, entity name, formation date, county, jurisdiction, entity type, service of process name, service of process address line 1, service of process address line 2, service of process city, service of process state, service of process ZIP code, CEO name, CEO address line 1, CEO address line 2, CEO city, CEO state, CEO ZIP code, registered agent name, registered agent address line 1, registered agent address line 2, registered agent city, registered agent state, registered agent ZIP code, location name, location address line 1, location address line 2, location city, location state, location ZIP code

## data.ny.gov's plans (2)

- [data.ny.gov, free, With an app token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-ny-gov/free-with-an-app-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 64% complete
- [data.ny.gov, free, Without an app token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-ny-gov/free-without-an-app-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 64% complete

## data.ny.gov's calls (1)

- `GET /resource/n9v6-gdp6.json`: [data.ny.gov, free, With an app token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-ny-gov/free-with-an-app-token/llms.txt)

## data.ny.gov's APIs (1)

- [data.ny.gov: business verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-ny-gov/free-with-an-app-token/llms.txt)

## data.ny.gov: business verification API alternatives

- [OpenSOSData, free, POST /v1/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/opensosdata/free-post-v1-lookup/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [GLEIF, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/gleif/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, stored
- [data.pa.gov, free, With an application token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-pa-gov/free-with-an-application-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 1 month
- [data.oregon.gov, free, With an app token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-oregon-gov/free-with-an-app-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 45% complete, 7 days

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-31.

- https://data.ny.gov/Economic-Development/Active-Corporations-Beginning-1800/n9v6-gdp6
- https://data.ny.gov/api/views/77gx-ii52/files/ef0c1840-ad54-4240-92fd-6397c49fde46?download=true&filename=OPEN-NY_20Terms_20of_20Use.pdf
- https://data.ny.gov/api/views/n9v6-gdp6.json
- https://data.ny.gov/dataset/OPEN-NY-Terms-Of-Use/77gx-ii52
- https://data.ny.gov/resource/n9v6-gdp6.json?$limit=2
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/app-tokens.html
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/endpoints.html
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/limit.html
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/offset.html
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/order.html
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/select.html
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/where.html
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/response-codes.html
- https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.ny.gov/n9v6-gdp6